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Cathedrals and cloisters of the south of France (1906)

Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 192

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iginal plan of the fagade is now seenin its battlemented wall and the south tower. This towerhas no religious suggestiveness; on the contrary it is a mili-tary structure, a tower of refuge of the Catalonian type.Its series of round arches ending in irregular crenellationscive it an air of… … a tower of refuge of the CATALONIAN type. —ELNE. Elne. 177 find so large and fine an interior. The three apses, ter-minating the central nave and the aisles, form a curiousconstruction; but both they and the long series of chapelson the north and south sides are comparatively unworthyparts of the…

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